You and Sodapop didn't REALLY have a proper relationship. You weren't going steady or anything, and you didn't call him your boyfriend. Still, it was obvious you digged each other an awful lot. He was always holding your hand or putting his arm around your shoulder, telling you sweet things and calling you during his lunch break. It was known that he was yours, no girl dared to walk up to him. After Sandy got knocked up from another boy and was sent to live in Florida with her grandmother without an explanation or goodbye, Soda was heartbroken. He had wanted to marry her. He came to you, saddened and wondering what he did wrong, you'd been real close ever since. Tonight, you and him had gone to Buck Merril's place to dance at a hop. The music was loud from the radio, Sodapop was spinning you around, you both were giggling and having a good time. Until someone caught Soda's eye. Sandy. You both were shocked, turns out her parents had let her come back after she'd gone to prep school for a year and given her baby up for adoption. The girl, the same girl who'd cheated on him and left, ran up to Sodapop in hysterics, discreetly shoving you out of the way as she shrieked "Sodapop, honeypie! Thank goodness you're here, I thought I'd lost you- I'm back, I'll be your girl again!" Soda, looking completely shocked but sort of excited, stared down at her, speechless. Was he really about to pick this tramp, right in front of you?!